Nodal 0.9: Deploy Nodal Projects to the Cloud with Polybit

Nodal 0.9: Deploy Your Nodal Projects to the Cloud with Polybit

Hey everyone! I'm pleased today to announce the official release of Nodal 0.9.

Some of you may have noticed a bit of a slowdown of the Nodal release train -
there's been a good reason. I'm really excited to share what we've been working on,
and I'd like this to serve as the first introduction to Polybit,
an API deployment solution for Nodal projects.

Polybit: Deploy Your Nodal API Projects From the Command Line

The goal of Polybit is pretty straightforward - setting up infrastructure can
be a pain in the behind, and a lot of developers would rather spend
their time building products and writing code instead of figuring out how
they're going to get your project live. So we've made it simple - one command,
nodal poly:deploy, no hassle.

Begin with nodal poly:register and go from there!

I'll release more information about Polybit in the coming weeks, but for now,
enjoy deploying two projects and two PostgreSQL databases to the cloud, for free.

The commands for deploying to Polybit are pretty straightforward. We don't use
git deployments, we'll deploy your project folder (for the most part) as is,
meaning you can test a staging environment without committing. I would like to
make clear the current system is Early Access, so please report bugs by
e-mailing info (at) polybit (dot) com. You can join the Nodal gitter
channel to ask questions or report issues at gitter.im/keithwhor/nodal.

All projects you create will be available on https://[project].api.poly.cloud.

The following command can be accessed from the Nodal CLI, i.e. by running
nodal [command]. You can check this list any time (while running Nodal 0.9+)
by typing nodal help poly.

Other Additions

We've added a few more things to this release and developed two new open source
libraries while working on Polybit, CMND:
A library for easily developing Command Line Interfaces in Node.js and
api-res: A wrapper around HTTP requests
for easily dealing with Nodal API server requests and responses.